Debut Buddies

Shannon and Nate are joined by special guest Colin Harrington (web developer, skateboarder, cougher of cherries) for a show all about PIRATES! Arrrr you ready? Topics include: Long John Silver's, Napster, Silk Road (website), Pyrates (1991 film) and Roberto Clemente. We play 5Ws: Blackbeard, Pomme ou pomme de terre, and a new game called Recast. Put some Pine Sol on your peg leg cuz it's time to w...

It's your move! Joe Hinson returns to face Shannon on a show about GAMES! We introduce a new game called 5Ws in which Nate does a questionable Mario impression, and the topics list includes Shell Games, Gamer (2009 film), The Who's Tommy, Ludomania, and more. Plus, Goofus and Gallant pops up! Oh, and Shannon was on a game show and won money!? Joe wants you to listen to the Manic Street Preachers....

Ian Silverii (Progress Now Colorado, politics) faces off against Shannon on an episode about Rockets (because Nate's dog Rocket just turned 2!). Topics include Rocket Raccoon, SpaceX, Saturn V, Space Force, and more! Plus we've got Fuck Marry Kill and Pomme ou pomme de terre! Also: Was Shannon in the Rockettes? And does Ian get his very own point scoring sound? The answers and more are IN THE EPIS...

Two men, and a bottle of Laphroaig, enter. Two men, and less than half that bottle, leave. With Shannon and John away, Nate welcomes guest Seth Harris (actor, luminary) to discuss topics from London and France including Jack the Ripper, Gertrude Ederle, the Eiffel Tower, 221B Baker Street, and more. As the bottle of Laphroaig pours, so too do some side conversations, stories, and outright madnesse...

May the Fourth was just with us! Jeff Wolf is back, plus new guests Jeremy Mast (hair model, 4x black belt) and Lindsay Morehouse (scientist, cat-lover) take on Shannon over a selection of NERD STUFF. We discuss The Rise of Skywalker, The First Ever Black Hole Photo, Avengers Endgame, Game of Thrones, Magic: The Gathering, Avogadro's Number and more. We even threw in a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill!...

Micah White returns to battle Shannon on a list of topics pertaining to the merry old month of May. We're talking about May Day, Mayday mayday mayday, Theresa May, Mayberry, and more. There's singing. There's whistling. There's contemplations on bad parenting. Nate even sticks his foot in his mouth a couple of times! No matter what, there ain't no good reason for getting all depressed... Unless yo...

Semi-local delight and semi-delightful local comedian Ryan Nowell delves into secret societies with Shannon on an episode all about conspiracies! We're talking about Lizard People. We're talking about the Grassy Knoll. We're talking about Freemasons. We're talking about Paul is Dead! Oh boy it's a fun one. Plus, we mention Hitchcock and other stuff that is entirely entertaining if you're into that...

Joe Hinson (full-time ops, part-time lawyer, dabbler in music and writing), Emily Fata (Diagon Ventures founder, consultant, writer) and Shannon roll a perfect, hard-hitting episode this week. The 420-friendly topics include: Cannabis Tampons, stoner movies, Harry Potter, Weed (2005 - 2012), CBD, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and more. Plus: Dick picks? Huh. If you like A Vague Idea, please rate and revi...

Brian Dickson (Poet, Professor) returns to face John, Shannon, and first time guest Marc Hughes (Sake Brewer, DJ, Spoonbender) on an episode about Kid Stuff. Topics include: Rumspringa, The Banana Splits, Bildungsroman, Billy the Kid and more. Plus, a new game called Goofus and Gallant. Hey, wait a minute, does Shannon know another famous person? And is there anything Marc DOESN'T KNOW? Listen to...

It's a hodge podge of the hellish and heavenly this week! Joining John and Shannon are guests Dr. Melati Stevens (Herb + Legend, immortality) and Rev. Dr. William Ferguson (ninja, wizard, diminutive food item connoisseur). They'll talk about Way of the Dragon, Holy Rollers, Hypertrichosis, Trogdor the Burninator, Anton LaVey and more. Plus: There's A F##king Dragon On Your Roof! And Pomme ou pomme...

We are, sadly, sans John, this week. So, wandering wizard and mall fashion show opening band member, Kate Binversie, joins geek of all trades, and armchair anthropologist, Andrea King on the show this week. They battle usual guest Shannon Paige over a list of topics pertaining to the Mind and Body (and a little Spirit, too), including: DSM-V, Momo Challenge, Keto Crotch, Cold Reading, the Cake Bos...

"Is THIS the end of Zombie Shakespeare!?" (That's a classic Simpsons quote... and to answer the question: Yes. Yes, it is.) Appearing this week to match brains with John and Shannon is playwright, and digital marketer Jeff Wolf (jeffreywolfplays.com). Nate's guests "trod the boards" over a series of stage and screen themed topics including: Brechtian Theatre, Method Acting, Found Footage, the Hous...

Special guest Katie Cowell (copywriter, swing dancer, urban history enthusiast, small Airbnb empress) joins us with news of BrassTaxes.com, a business that helps creatives and freelancers take the OUCH out of filing. Katie duels John and Shannon on a show of CRIES and CRYS over topics like Crime and Punishment, Cryptozoology, Cry Baby (1990), the Cryptkeeper, and Cryptography. We all find out that...

When Shannon's away... we get some extra specials guests! Facing John on this week's show, are returning guest Eric Palencia, family lawyer and artist Maha Kamal, and poet and CU lecturer Jenny Cookson. Topics include: Reality Therapy, Barn Burners, the Blue People of Kentucky, the Teapot Dome Scandal and more, plus the usual fun of Pomme ou pomme de terre and Original Sketch. But things get reall...

Gardener, businesswoman, butcher, teacher... and JOHN'S SISTER (WHAAAAA!!??), Helen Peros, is our special guest for an episode about Ancient Astronauts, Echolocation, the Iron Curtain, and Harlequin Romance. We're all living High on the Hog in this one! There's Hall or Oates, and Pomme ou pomme de terre, plus Nate premieres a new game: Original Sketch, that tests his guests improv skills. Follow t...

Prepare to meat your match! This week we welcome special guests The Steak King, himself, Paul Baldwin (@thesteakking on Insta, facebook.com/thesteakking), and the Steak Queen, herself, Barb Baldwin, to grill or be grilled with John and Shannon. We hear the origin of the Steak King, then Nate cooks up a list of savory topics including The Mythic and Untrue Etymology of Sirloin, Trump Steaks, Stakeo...

Becca Lipman returns to the show, to defend her first-appearance victory. She, Shannon, and John dabble in topics ranging from Transformers (1986) to Haitian Voudu to Missing White Woman Syndrome to the Taco Cleanse. There's Pomme ou Pomme de Terre, Hall or Oates, and a bonus question impression of a wealthy dowager... and then we talk about the at-the-time soon-to-be-played Super Bowl... but that...

Writer of the Burning Metronome comic series, the "What'd I Miss?" comic in the Colorado Sun, and host of Mother F**ker in a Cape podcast, R Alan Brooks, guests this week! Alan, John, and Shannon tackle "Well... Actually," Pomme ou pomme de terre, and a list of bloody good topics including the myth of Welsh Corgis, the Denver Spider Man, Mason-Dixon Line, Pro Wrestling Face, an...

Award winning manager of International Visitor and Professional Exchange Programs at World Denver, and Regis University admissions staff, Dan Wienecke is on the show this week! He discusses short-term swimwear, and then challenges John and Shannon on topics including Public Access Television, Dungeons and Dragons, Leaves of Grass, Weather Underground, Hacienda Skilled Nursing Facility Birth, Manti...

A bagel makes an appearance in the second edition of Pomme ou pomme de terre, and Nate, John, and Shannon welcome special guest Sara Smith (advertiser / CU Boulder Faculty) to talk about the Noble Eightfold Path, Rocco the British Parrot, Necropants, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and the Waffle House Index. Plus, things get a little racy when they talk about Globish. There's even a new game:...

We start 2019 with an episode of A Vague Idea that's a real barn burner! With no special guest John and Shannon get gritty in a game decided by 1/10th of a point!!! We talk about the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act (2018), the Puppybowl, the $325,000 Hamburger, Jonestown, and more. PLUS: Nate has a new game for us... "Pomme ou Pomme de Terre?" Have ye what it takes to listeneth to th...

How dare you bring Tofurkey here! THIS is a meat house! The inimitable Micah White (Geeks Who Drink, Denver Center for the Performing Arts) answers the call to A Vague Idea this week! He battles Shannon and John over topics like H.R. Giger, H.R. Pufnstuf, the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Baby Powder, and Andreas Hvid's Great Pyramid Porn. PLUS: Sean Connery accents! This episode is a HOOT! In this...

On a very special holiday episode, Nate gets his actual family to find out if they have a vague idea about a list of topics from Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. It's a real Dickensian situation!!! His wife Jenny, sister Sylvia, stepmom Yolanda, father Tom, and brother-in-law Taylor throw back some cheer and talk about the Yule Cat, Wassailing, Good King Wenceslas, the Star...

On our 10th episode (can you believe we made it this far?), John and Shannon face off against special guests, Steno proprietor Rex Roberts (Biking for Baseball, Defenestrate), and Eric Palencia (Steno, Defenestrate) in a war of wills! Will they have a vague idea about Dane Best's Snowball Fight? The Tragedy of the Commons? Amazon's Bear Spray Incident? Maybe they know about the Theremin, or Michae...

Recorded LIVE from Steno, this week John and Shannon battle special guest "Quiz Daddy" Dave DeNovellis (Geeks Who Drink, The Government). We talk about Knickers the Australian Cow, Movies based on Board Games, Pioneer Hugh Glass, Colorado 14ers, and for the first time Nate's slipped a super secret B-B-B-B-Bonus Question into the mix that makes everyone do their best Pacino Lear. Sound am...